marathon

How biking or walking or running or sitting in one placecan have the kind of magic that lures and pulls you back to another time, another place, another person— a glimmer of Orion’s belt, the snap of a wine cork, a faint whiff of toasted hazelnut.

In French and Creole cultures, this kind of remembrance encapsulates the magic of déjà-vu— the sense that what you areexperiencing au présent, you have already experienced au passé.

The sense that you are living in this shadowy yet glimmering place between past and present.